When the ink finally dried

Finally the yellow/orange ink dried, it’s a strange process one minute it is still tacky then suddenly it’s bone dry. Anyway here’s the finished print that is really an application of a mixed media process covering a linocutting, monoprinting and stencilling. The cutting was done using a very basic and simple pencil sketch on the block then the knives and gouges were used as if they were a different kind of pencil. A sketched linocut if you like. To keep it simple and not worry about registration too much the background colours were cut with a pair of scissors as were the stencils. This was different kind of production process that I enjoyed experimenting with and I will use it again simply because of the spontaineous quality it gives you. Some might describe it as out of control but you have to cut loose occasionally.